The Langley School
Legal name: The Langley School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540673568
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- McLean, Virginia, US
- Phone
- 703-356-1920
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $27,493,367
- Expenses
- $25,169,874
- Assets
- $94,382,528
- Liabilities
- $41,060,970
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELE CLAEYS (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $523,036 total reported compensation
- GREGORY BOKMAN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $322,113 total reported compensation
- SARAH SUMWALT (DIR STUDENT SUPPORT/SEL): $216,629 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Langley School is a community that believes in the power of childhood. We embrace the unique gifts and potential of each child, and we are committed to providing an educational experience that fosters curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning. We believe that children learn best when they are engaged, challenged, and supported in a nurturing environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are dedicated to developing the whole child—intellectually, socially, emotionally, and physically—and to preparing our students to be responsible, compassionate, and engaged citizens of the world.
What it reported doing in 2024
Operation of an independent school for grades preschool through 8th serving over 500 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.75; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $523K · 24 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $901K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.